Communication among a group of robots should in principle improve the overall performance of the team of robots, as robots may share their world views and may negotiate task assignments. However, in practice, effectively handling in real-time multi-robot merge of information and coordination is a challenging task. In this paper, we present the approach that we have successfully developed for a ...

This paper introduces SesaME, a generic dialogue management framework, especially designed for supporting dynamic multidomain dialogue processing. SesaME supports a multitude of highly distributed applications and facilitates simultaneous adaptation to individual users and their environment. The dynamic multi-domain dialogue processing is supported through the use of standardised and highly dis...

The unpredictable run-time configurations of dynamic, datadriven application systems require flexible simulation components that can adapt to changes in the number of interacting components, the syntactic definition of their interfaces, and their role in the semantic definition of the entire system. Simulation coercion provides one solution to this problem through a human-controlled mix of semi...

In this paper we forge a connection between dynamic epistemic logics of belief revision on one hand and studies of collective judgement and multi-agent preference change on the other. Belief revision in the spirit of dynamic epistemic logic uses updating with relational substitutions to change the beliefs of individual agents. Collective judgement in social choice theory studies the collective ...

We study the effects of mobility on two crucial characteristics in multi-scale dynamic networks: percolation and connection times. Our analysis provides insights into question, to what extent long-time averages are well-approximated by expected values corresponding quantities, i.e., probabilities. In particular, we show that models, strong random may persist limit. Depending precise model choic...

A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), a set of wirelessly connected sensor nodes, is a dynamic system that executes hop-by-hop routing independently with no external help of any infrastructure. Proper selection of cluster heads can increase the life time of the Ad-hoc network by decreasing the energy consumption. Although different methods have been successfully proposed by researchers to tackle...

Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of partitioning the set of agents into exhaustive and disjoint coalitions such that the social welfare is maximized. This coalition structure generation problem is extremely challenging due to the exponential number of partitions that need to be examined. Spec...

A multi search process version of the sequential assignment, distributed Conflict based BackJumping algorithm is presented. Multi-CBJ benefits greatly from sharing of Nogoods among search processes. It also improves when the multi-search process is dynamic, generating CBJ processes during search with a dynamic heuristic that controls load balancing. The resulting algorithm, Cooperative Dynamic ...